translator

Noun

translator (plural translators)

1. A person or thing that translates various forms of text.
2. (proscribed, sometimes, inexact) Synonym of interpreter, a person or thing that immediately interprets direct speech.
   • "You don't believe the Soviet Union is going to reduce its defense budget, do you?" Boggs asked.
     Premier Chou didn't wait for the translator to finish. "Never, never, never," he replied in perfect English.1980, Gerald Ford, “Boyhood—and Beyond”, in A Time to Heal, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 95

   Synonyms:

   interpreter

3. (figuratively) A person or thing that expresses an idea or style in a new form or medium.
   • Mr. C. Blair Leighton... lithographer... was one of the earliest translators of water and oil pictures by the chromatic process.1855 June, Gentleman's Magazine, number 657, page 1
4. (historical) A machine that converts inputs into a pattern of holes on a punch card.
5. (US) A relay station that retransmits incoming television signals after automatically adjusting their frequency to avoid interference.
6. A program that converts commands from one computer language into another.
7. (obsolete) Synonym of carrier, a person who transports something, now particularly (Roman Catholicism, rare) holy relics.
   • ... the translator of the life and miracles of the saints, like the translator of the relics, need not have been "literate"; nor did he have to be a clerk.2019, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe, page 100

   Synonyms:

   carrier

8. (historical) Synonym of repairer, particularly of leather or cloth goods.
   • Boots and Shoes are not to be had, I am told, in sufficient quantity for the demand from the slop-shops, the "translators," and the second-hand dealers. Great quantities of second-hand boots and shoes are sent to Ireland to be "translated" there.1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, page 33

   Synonyms:

   repairer, particularly of leather or cloth goods

9. (historical, slang) A used and repaired shoe, boot, or other item of clothing.
10. (obsolete) Synonym of repeater, a thing that automatically retransmits an incoming message along a telegraph line.

    Synonyms:

    repeater

11. (obsolete) A thing that converts energy from one form to another.
12. The retinaculum of asclepiads.